Fluorine-Containing Dibenzoanthracene and Benzoperylene-Type Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Synthesis, Structure, and Basic Chemical Properties by Otohiro Gotsu, Tomomi Shiota, Hiroki Fukumoto, Tomoko Kawasaki-Takasuka, Takashi Yamazaki, Tomoko Yajima, Tomohiro Agou, Toshio Kubota

“…The structure of <b>4a</b> originating from &#960;&#8315;&#960; interaction was characterized by X-ray crystallographic analysis. …”
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Mechanistic Studies for Palladium Catalyzed Copolymerization of Ethylene with Vinyl Ethers by Andleeb Mehmood, Xiaowei Xu, Waseem Raza, Ki-Hyun Kim, Yi Luo

“…On achieving an agreement between theory and experiment, it is found that the favorable 1,2-selective insertion of VE into the complex <b>A</b> originates from stronger hydrogen interaction between the oxygen atom of VE and the ancillary ligand of catalyst <b>A</b>. …”
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Phylogeny-wide analysis of G-protein coupled receptors in social amoebas and implications for the evolution of multicellularity [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Pauline Schaap, Christina Schilde, Sarah Kelly, Grant Hall

“…The family 6 cAMP receptors that have experimentally supported roles in multicellular development in dictyostelids (carA-carD; tasA/B) originated at the root of all dictyostelids and only have weakly associated homologs in Physarum polycephalum. …”
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